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title: "Gallic War — Book VII"
author: "Julius Caesar"
translator: "W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Classical Latin"
section: 86 of 90
url: https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-vii/86/
cite: "Julius Caesar, tr. W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn, Gallic War — Book VII, section 86. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-vii/86/"
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# Gallic War — Book VII

*Julius Caesar, tr. W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn*

## 86. Book VII — Chapter 86

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-vii/86/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-vii/86/#p-N

[¶0] Caesar, on observing these movements, sends Labienus with six cohorts to relieve his distressed soldiers:

> Latin: His rebus cognitis Caesar Labienum cum cohortibus sex subsidio laborantibus mittit:

[¶1] he orders him, if he should be unable to withstand them, to draw off the cohorts and make a sally; but not to do this except through necessity.

> Latin: imperat, si sustinere non posset, deductis cohortibus eruptione pugnaret; id nisi necessario ne faciat.

[¶2] He himself goes to the rest, and exhorts them not to succumb to the toil; he shows them that the fruits of all former engagements depend on that day and hour.

> Latin: Ipse adit reliquos, cohortatur ne labori succumbant; omnium superiorum dimicationum fructum in eo die atque hora docet consistere.

[¶3] The Gauls within, despairing of forcing the fortifications in the plains on account of the greatness of the works, attempt the places precipitous in ascent: hither they bring the engines which they had prepared;

> Latin: Interiores desperatis campestribus locis propter magnitudinem munitionum loca praerupta ex ascensu temptant: huc ea quae paraverant conferunt.

[¶4] by the immense number of their missiles they dislodge the defenders from the turrets: they fill the ditches with clay and hurdles, then clear the way; they tear down the rampart and breast-work with hooks.

> Latin: Multitudine telorum ex turribus propugnantes deturbant, aggere et cratibus fossas explent, falcibus vallum ac loricam rescindunt.